Rhea County residents say new coal mine will destroy roads

Mavin Dean moved to her home on State HWY 443 20 years ago. "Oh, so quiet, so quiet. There was nobody out here," she says.

However, time has brought a lot of changes. "Traffic has built up. Before if I saw five or six cars go down the road a day I was doing good. Now I see that many in a few minutes," Dean says.

Within a year that traffic will include dozens of dump trucks from the proposed coal mine just across the street from her home. Dean and her neighbors say its just too dangerous.

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